A Wonderful Week of Artist Lead Workshops

The Wood Buffalo Artist in Residency (AIR) program is now in its fourth week and this year’s mentors, Alma Louise Visscher and Kritsana Naowakhun, have already hosted two community artist workshops.  This week, the mentors will host three more artist workshops that are open to all ages and abilities, and all supplies will be provided for the participants.   From Aug. 8^th – Aug. 10^th the mentors will visit the communities of Anzac, Conklin, and Fort Chipewyan.  Please note that children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult.  Please visit the AIR website for more information on the program, and to register for workshops.

 www.rmwb.ca/air

Monday’s workshop will be held in Anzac at the Community Hall, and the focus will be on painting winter wonderlands. Participants will discover the basics of painting snow covered hills, bare trees, and other winter elements.

One of Wednesday’s workshop will be held in Conklin at the Community Centre, and the focus will be on painting fall landscapes. Participants will discover color and brush stroke movements.

The other Wednesday workshop will be in Fort Chipewyan, at the MaMawi Community Centre. It will explore themes of community, flags, fabric dying and painting.

All workshops will have both thematic or conceptual components, as well as a technical component.

Cultural Mapping

The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo is in the process of developing an interactive cultural map that will showcase the Municipality's local cultural assets, such as community cultural organizations, cultural facilities & spaces, cultural events & festivals, cultural industries, heritage plaques & monuments, heritage sites, public art, and places of religious assembly.

In partnership with Millier Dickinson Blais, one of North America’s largest specialist development consultancies, the Municipality will be traveling to several rural communities to meet with residents and collect information about the various cultural assets throughout our region.
If you live in a rural community and are interested in being part of these conversations, please feel free to meet with us!

Monday, October 27       Janvier Municipal Office                          1 pm to 3 pm

              Nakewin Hall (Conklin)                                   4:30 to 7:30 pm

Tuesday, October 28      Fort McKay                                  1 pm to 3 pm

Wednesday, October 29     Fort Chipewyan Municipal Office                          11 am to 3 pm

Thursday, October 30    Anzac Recreation Centre                                7 pm to 9:30 pm

What are the Key Messages of Cultural Mapping?

The Importance of Cultural Resources 

• The Municipality recognizes the importance of cultural resources to enhancing quality of life for all residents, generating economic benefit, and facilitating the attraction and retention of newcomers and their families. 

The Wood Buffalo Cultural Mapping Project 

• Developing a Cultural Map is an essential tool to support planning and decision-making, to supporting effective cultural resource management, and to build understanding and raising the profile of cultural resources for residents and visitors.

What Do We Mean by Cultural Resources?

• The Cultural Mapping Project will embrace a broad definition of cultural resources that will include both tangible and intangible cultural resources. 
• Tangible cultural resources are understood to include not-for-profit arts and heritage organizations, cultural businesses or industries, cultural heritage, natural heritage, festivals and events, cultural facilities and spaces, places of religious assembly, and public art. Other categories of tangible resources will emerge in the course of the project. 
• Equally important to the Cultural Mapping Project will be mapping intangible cultural resources such as community stories, traditions and defining moments in community history. This work will actively involve the community itself in helping to map these resources.  

2013 Fort Chipewyan Winter Carnival

If you have any questions, please contact Flossie Cyprien at 780.697.3724 or 780.714.0569

Fort Chipewyan Bicentennial Museum

The exterior of the museum at Fort Chipewyan is an exact reconstruction of the Hudson’s Bay store of 1870. Here you are taken back in time to the early fur trade and the Aboriginal experience as it responded to European influence. You will be steeped in the spiritual ambience of Native cultures and the fierce rivalries of the fur traders. The collections and stories that you encounter will provide you with an in-depth understanding of the development of this northern-most and oldest settlement in Alberta.

Permanent Collections:
• Complete, accurate scale representation of the Hudson’s Bay Company Fort, circa 1870
• Fur trade and historical artifacts (guns, canoes used for trapping)
• Photographs
• Maori spiritual talking stick
• Turtle shell – story of the turtle shell found in Lake Athabasca
• History of indigenous people of influence (101-year-old midwife who delivered over 400 living babies)
• Local crafts
• Historical buildings (residential schools, churches)
• Library includes family genealogy records; Native culture and history; Catholic and Anglican Church records; local history; and the fur trade

Phone: 780.697.3844
Fax: 780.697.2389
Email: fortchipmuseum@telus.net

Location:
109 Mackenzie Avenue
Fort Chipewyan, AB
T0P 1B0

Mailing Address:
Box 203,
Fort Chipewyan, AB
T0P 1B0

To Learn more about the Fort Chipewyan Bicentennial Museum, please visit:
http://public.museums.ab.ca/museums.cfm?ItemID=46

Fish Oil and Berry Juice - Fort Chipewyan Artist In Residency

In August 2012, two artists traveled to Fort Chipewyan to take part in the Wood Buffalo Artist in Residency Program (you can learn more about this program by visiting http://www.woodbuffalo.ab.ca/artist)

One of the artists, Alisdair MacRae, worked closely with the Fort Chipewyan Bicentennial Museum and Mr. Oliver Glanfield to produce a project about the region and its history.

Mr. MacRae has created a website for his project. If you are interested in learning more about this project, please visit:

http://alisdairmacrae.com/fishoilandberryjuice/

Wood Buffalo Artist in Residency - Fort Chipewyan Studio 2012

Artists Janet (Dean) Procure and Alisdair MacRae will be located in a studio at the Mamawi Community Hall in Fort Chipewyan throughout August 2012.

During this time, they will host the following:

Sunday Open House: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Every Sunday Afternoon  throughout August 2012

Week Night Open House and Art Talks: 6:30pm - 9:00pm
 - Wed. August 8, 2012 - Talk features a Demo on Painting Silk by Janet Procure, 6:30 - 7:30pm
- Wed. August 15, 2012 - Talk focuses on Copper Tooling by Janet Procure, 6:30 - 7:30pm
- Tues. August 21, 2012 - Features a preview of the work that will be on display during the Artist in Residency   Final Show (September 6-30, 2012 at the MacDonald Island Community Art Gallery in Fort McMurray)